Lien survives after questionable misconduct

Based on a 1979 Delaware Supreme Court case and claims that a workers’ compensation insurer engaged in misconduct in Illinois — including allegedly obstructing efforts by the special administrators of Arnold O. Rexroad Sr.’s estate to investigate a wrongful-death claim and allegedly bypassing his widow’s attorney when trying to settle her workers’ compensation claim — a judge in Effingham …

When Cesar and Irene Roman appealed from a final judgment in a mortgage foreclosure case filed by Deutsche Bank, the Illinois Appellate Court initially agreed with their argument that the appeal wasn’t moot under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 305(k) — even though the Romans never obtained a stay and the property was conveyed to an assignee of Cortez Vilico LLC after a judicial sale in which Cortez Vilico was the highest bidder.

How would you feel if you were walking down the street one day and, as you turned the corner, you suddenly came face to face with someone who looked exactly like you? Not just someone who looked somewhat like you, but an exact replica.

In divorces it comes down to the question of who is going to get what. What may appear to be a simple exercise of “just splitting it down the middle” in reality is not so easy for many divorcing couples who have a wide range of assets.

In 2008, my phone started ringing off the hook. Attorneys from all over the Chicago area were panicking due to reduced billable hours, lost jobs and the uncertainties of the worst recession in our lifetimes. So, here we are 10 years later, and I’m feeling like Bill Murray from the movie “Groundhog Day,” watching history repeat itself all over again.

Granting Pastor Eric Flood’s petition for protection from Chester Wilk under the Stalking No Contact Order Act, a Cook County judge issued a decree that prohibited Wilk from (1) stalking Flood; (2) contacting Flood; (3) coming within 500 feet of Flood’s residence or South Park Church in Park Ridge; (4) possessing a firearm; and (5) “communicating, publishing or communicating in any form any writing naming or regarding Flood, his family or any employee, staff or member of the congregation of South Park Church.”

James Hollander allegedly caused an accident by failing to obey a stop sign while driving Sandra Wendland in her Nissan Altima — seriously injuring Wendland, a second passenger and another motorist — and the three plaintiffs argued that Hollander, who died in the collision, qualified as an insured under a $1 million umbrella policy that State Farm Insurance Co. sold to Wendland.